A very BAD National Scrapbook Day

Do not forget tonight is the reveal of the May Kit over at Bad Girls, and all the add-ons go up for sale too! all happening at 10pm Pacific or 1 am on the East!!! The reveal party will start at 9pm or midnight in the East!

Come on over to the BAD GIRLS MESSAGE BOARD all day Saturday from 12pm eastern time to midnight!!!!! or 9am-9pm on the west coast! Every hour we are having challenges and classes, it is going to be so much fun!!!!!! Me thinks that cute little thing in the banner ad will be there.....not the precious sweetie with the pig tales......that project!!!!!!!!!!!

Peeks>>>>>>>> May Bad Girls kit

Okie Dokie bad blogger I am!!!!!! Here are a few peeks of the May Bad Girls kit...set to be revealed tomorrow night over on the message board!! Big party, fun times, prizes!!!!!!

Clearly it's manly vintage this month!!!!!!! wouldn't you say??

Friday - my five or six favorite vacation photos!!!

finally some of my Costa Rica pictures - which I am going to incorporate into my friday fives!!! I put about 60 of the trip up on facebook - but here are some of my favorites!

1. The tastiest drink in the country - the Pina Colada - no mix down there it was pure and fresh and good!!!!! And when all the restaurants are outside it's even better!!!

2. The sunset at the equator is awesome, we watched it out at the beach almost every night!!!

3. One of my favorite photos

4. A favorite of my hubby surfing

5. And a couple of me - yes I did it, I learned to surf!!!

back to Healthy....

I really wanted to get back to some healthy topics on the blog......a few weeks before leaving for Costa Rica I sort of took a break in the exercise department and then kind of let myself eat whatever in anticipation of vacation and indulging!!! So when I got back from vacay I kind of....sort of....just kept up with the vacation style!! But I can really only go so long with that and then I start to feel bloated and yuck and the worst part, feeling like I need a nap everyday, no energy. It really is amazing how bad food can bring you down like that!

So a week ago I cut it out, got back to the basement to workout and cut out the crappy food! And it really does floor me everytime that within 2 days you can drain the excess fluid and release all that bloat and instantly be awake!!!!

wanted to share a simple little entree I had last week

Oregano chicken

8 chicken thighs
2 tsp dried Oregano
salt and pepper to taste
1/4 Cup Olive Oil
1/2 lemon, juiced

Oven preheat to 450

Wash chicken and pat dry. In a small bowl mix oregano with salt and pepper to your liking. I just throw in a few shakes. Rub this all over the chicken pieces, stuffing some under the skin - since I tend to peel my skin off once it hits my plate. Put chicken in a 9x13.

Whisk the oil and lemon juice together. pour HALF of the mixture over the chicken, tossing and coating the pieces. Bake for 15 minutes. take the chicken out, flip the pieces over, add remaining oil and bake another 15 minutes.

a few notes - please use Chicken thighs with the bone. one of the reasons that this is so flavorful and tender is because of the bone. Using the boneless skinless thighs just takes the whole moist tender element out of it..in my opinion!

I have also done this in the crock pot - slow cook for 4 hours just dumping the whole oil/lemon mixture over the chicken and let it coook!

the chicken is great warm, room temp, or cold!!

I put a ton of my Costa Rica pictures up at facebook, so if we are "friends" check them out there!! I will put 1 or 2 up here tomorrow!

More Layouts to share>>>>>

The April Kit ~Butterfly kisses~over at Bad Girls is up - also many huge wonderful add-ons!!! Please, please do not miss out on the awesome talent in the Bad Girl Design Team gallery this month!!! Here are my layouts with the kit this month! But first..let's talk>>>>

So when I got this yummy kit, I stared at it for a few days, I looked at all the yellow and got really scared..why? I don't know? Yellow is my favorite color.....but I felt overwhelmed!!! So after my ultimate staredown with this kit.....I put it to the blade and just started going - there are sooooooo many fun borders and elements of Spring in this kit it is unbelievable!!!!! All the fun accents and trim pieces, they all go so well together!

I grabbed old photos of DH and pictures of the boys, pictures with friends - because even though Bad Girls sets off the girly, pink, fun vibe - it is still a versatile kit every month!!! So don't be scared...for very long =)

So what cartoons do your kids love..always a new one right? At one point in time Rollie Polie Ollie was top dog, according to my boys!! I just don't want to forget! Eek, the colors are just too fun!

Okay the wide silky Ribbon in the kit is so yummy and even yummier as a flower!!! gosh, I didn't realize how Pink this LO really is!!! Yay for Pink! and polka dot thickers!!!!!

the challenge this month was an awesome retro Ad that had these cool peeps dancing on this record - check out the message board when the kits ship - to see the same challenge that Wendy extends to the members to win a fabulous Bad Girl Bag!!! very similiar to the Apron I am wearing in my blog header!! Anywho...here is my interpretation of the Ad..I drew on the 3-d ness of it all, and used the big butterfly from the hambly sheet as my guide for playing amongst all things spring!!!

this here photo(LOL) is my honey..when we were dating, you can see me in the background! the photo was buried in the bottom of my big-ass photo box and I just had to resurrect it and frame it with fun embellishments because this photo made me smile!!

oh, and I have finally had a chance to look at my pictures from Costa Rica - so stayed tuned cause I promise I will show you that I surfed!!!!